Neidinger Heidenschloss
| Heidenschloss ruin | ||
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 Castle site with rampart and moat from the east |
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| Alternative name (s): | Jagberg Castle | |
| Creation time : | 1100 to 1150 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, ditches, remains of the wall | |
| Construction: | Small and large blocks, humpback blocks | |
| Place: | Beuron - Neidingen | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 5 '58.1 " N , 9 ° 3' 13.6" E | |
| Height: | 758 m above sea level NN | |
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The so-called Heidenschloss is an abandoned hilltop castle near Neidingen , a district of the Beuron municipality in the Sigmaringen district in Baden-Württemberg .
location
The remains of the Spornburg lie on a sloping mountain spur at 758 m above sea level. NN above a side canyon of the Danube Valley bordered by steep limestone cliffs, around 500 meters northwest of Neidingen.
history
Based on reading pottery finds, the castle was built in the first half of the 12th century. The found humpback blocks also indicate an expansion of the facility in the 13th century. The original name of the castle, now known as the Heidenschloss , and its builder have not been passed down. It may be the Jagberg Castle owned by the Lords of Ramsberg , which has not yet been localized , as the nearby Jagberg corridor suggests. There is documentary evidence of the sale of the Jagberg castle stable with accessories to Märklin von Hausen in 1446 by the brothers Hans and Marquart von Ramsberg. The end of the castle can be assumed to have occurred around 1300 to 1350.
investment
The southwest facing castle has a flat roof-like structure, with which on the ledge fanning lower castle and the overlying rectangularly extended on the spur core Burg . In the ascending slope terrain in long-range pervades moat the ridge above which at a width of about eleven meters very strong, covered by earth cast wall remains raised. A narrow access path leads through a gap in this wall-like remnant of the wall to the actual core castle complex, interrupted by another section ditch behind it . Above this inner ditch are the small remains of a shield-like wall. This could be the northeast wall of a building (or residential tower ) erected at the highest point , which once encompassed the entire 10 × 13 meter area of the central inner castle area. While remnants of flat wall foundations have been preserved on the south-east side, larger, heavily eroded masonry sections with external facing can be found on the north and west corners. In between, individual wall blocks repeatedly appear in the ground.
In the western part, a trough-like depression indicates a possible cellar. Small traces of walls and foundations as well as flatter rubble walls are evidence of the south-west wall. The terrain drops steeply to the southwest and flows a few meters lower into a slope terrace that widens to the south. Here there are not insignificant remains of a mighty surrounding wall , which run from west to south along the edge of the cliff and to the east once formed a barrier on the mountain side. Larger cast wall sections with small remnants of wall facing made of small blocks have been preserved from it.
The east wall in particular shows the use of very large stone blocks. The area, which is more easily accessible at this point, probably required protection by a particularly strong, massive wall front. This also formed the end of a castle courtyard in the southern part of the lower castle, while in the western part, set off by a small rock step, a leveled area rises up with remains of wall foundations, which indicate another structure (building, tower). Finds of humpback cuboids as well as the presence of well-crafted small cuboid masonry on the surrounding wall suggest the end of a structurally quite elaborate complex.
literature
- Günter Schmitt : Neidinger Heidenschloß (Jagberg) . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3. Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 148-150.
- Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb . Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 340–341.
